This blog will capture the story of 2 enthusiastic fools riding motorcycles across Continental Europe to the Black Sea in 11 days while visiting some work colleagues in Romania on the way.

Wednesday, 17 May 2017

Prior planning prevents piss poor performance....

Or was it plan early plan twice.  Who knows?  Since this ride was conceived we've been looking at different ways in which we can mix it up and ensure it's not just a pleasure cruise through Europe or, worse, and long and dull motorway blast. Thats when the idea to stay off motorways and dip a toe in the Black Sea came about.
Now we have 11 days to cross Europe, have a paddle, visit the guys in Romania and get home before the inbox explodes and wives start to wonder were we are.
Thats some 3,500 miles on current route planning and around 350 miles per day. 1 day's given over to the visit.
They say that no plan survives first contact so follow us as we ride to the edge of Europe and within sight of Central Aisa.

Game over.

It was with a sombre mood that we packed up camp for the last time on this ride.   We had time on our side before our train back to the UK ...